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His eyes becahts, his detached

attention changed to a readiness for her He was a young ure and soft brown hair brushed up

on the Ger?" she asked

"I've got a wen "But I've various places I o to--put in

some time here and there"

He brought her a strong sense of the outer world It was as

if she were set on a hill and could feel vaguely the whole world

lying spread before her

"What have you a ineers--in the Ar you away from your studies," said her

Uncle Tohed, young and inflammable

"She won't wait to be taken away," said her father But that

seemed clus

"Don't you like study?" asked Skrebensky, turning to her,

putting the question fros," said Ursula "I like Latin and

French--and gra seemed attentive to her,

then he shook his head

"I don't," he said "They say all the brains of the arineers I think that's why I joined theet

the credit of other people's brains"

He said this quizzically and with chagrin And she became

alert to him It interested her Whether he had brains or not,